Snow-guard for roofs.



J. H. FULMBR. SNOW GUARD FOR ROOFS.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 21, 1905.

PATENTED APR. 10, 1906.

Inventor,

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JOSEPH H. F ULMER, OF NAZARETH, PENNSYLVANIA.

SNOW-GUARD FOR RooFs.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. April 10, 1906.

Application filed July 21,1905- Serial No. 270,728.

To u/ZZ 'u/lmmt it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn H. FULMER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Nazareth, in the county of Northampton and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Snow-Guard for Roofs, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for preventing snow and ice in largecakes from sliding off of pitched roofs, and has for its object toprovide an improved device of this character which is capable of beingconveniently secured to the roof without damage to the shingles thereofand which. will be inexpensive, durable, and highly eflicient for thepurpose designed.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, aswill be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanyingdrawings, and particularly pointed out in the appendedclaim, it beingunderstood that changes in form, proportion, size, and minor details maybe made within the scope of the claim without departing from the spiritor sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1. is a detail sectional view of aportion of a roof having the snow-guard of the present inventionapplied. thereto. Fig, 2 is a detail perspective view of the snow-guard.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in bothfigures of the draw- .ings.

As embodied in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings, it will be seen thatthe present device is formed from a single length of heavy wire which isfirst bent intermediate of its ends into a loop 1, the opposite wireportions then being tightly intertwisted to form a rigid stem 2, fromwhich the opposite portions of the wire are extended in oppositedirections .in a plane at substantially right angles to that of the loop1, so as to form a rela tively long shank 3 and a shorter brace member4, the outer extremity of the shank being bent to form a prong 5, whichis pointed at its outer terminal.

In practice the shank and brace of the guard are placed upon the upperportion of a shingle 6, which has been previously connected to thesheathing or other portion 7 of the roof with the shank extending abovethe upper edge of the shingle and the prong driven into the sheathing.After the device has thus been fitted in place the next above shingle isfitted in place over the top of the shank and overlapping the upper edgeportion of the shingle 6 in the usual manner, whereby the guard issecured by the upper shingle in addition to the fastening afforded bythe prong 5. When thus applied, the loop 1 constitutes a guard-shoulderfor the support of such snow and ice as may be accumulated against theupper face of the loop, whereby such accumulation will be held againstsliding off of the roof in a comparativelylargemass. The lower endportiond of the wire constitutes a brace to prevent bending of the loop,and the latter is furthermore stiffened by the twisted stem portion 2,whereby the device is rendered exceedingly strong and durable withoutrequiring any extraneous bracing means or otherwise complicating thedevice.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A snow-guard.consisting of a shank terminating at one end. in a laterally-directedfastening-prong and having an intermediate portion of the shank twisted.upon itself to form a rigid stem disposed at substantially right anglesto the shank and terminating at its outer end in a loop set transverselyof the shank,- the stem and the loop being upon one side of the shank,and the prong upon the other side of the shank.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH H. FULMER.

l/Vitnesses IIARRY D. KUTZ, JOHN Bush.

